‘Twilight’ today, gone tomorrow

Back in 1978 my buddies and I raced to the nearest movie theater to see “Corvette Summer.”

Never heard of it? Join the club. But it was the first post-”Star Wars” movie for Mark “Luke Skywalker” Hamill.

And, at that point, a Star Wars” fanatic like myself would pay to see the actor read my math textbook. Backward.

The film didn’t leave much of an impression, other than my first glimpse at a boob on screen – in silhouette.

Thank you, Annie Potts (or her body double).

But the memory came rushing back to me while I read the box office tally for the new Robert Pattinson drama “Remember Me.”

I actually had to squint the numbers were so minuscule.

Pattinson’s rise to fame courtesy of the “Twilight” franchise is well documented, but it appears his rabid fan base only wants to see him in a whiter shade of pale.

The “Remember Me” trailer seemed like catnip for tween audiences, and this film critic from a demographic far, far away from the teen set, was impressed by the actor’s performance.

Yet in its second week in theaters it tumbled 60 percent – a huge number for a non-blockbuster film – for a grand total of $13.9 million.

It’s hard to imagine a film better tailored for Pattinson’s fan base. Yet Twilight Nation didn’t come out to support him.

My friends’ support for Hamill years ago wasn’t enough to let him become a movie star beyond the “Star Wars” saga. That may prove to the case for the erstwhile Edward Cullen.

(Photo: “Twilight” star Robert Pattinson, left, tries to leverage his newfound fame with the film “Remember Me,” co-starring Pierce Brosnan, right.)

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